The President and Vice-President of the Sales Force Workers Union - a member of the IUF-affiliated AIWUR - have both been laid off in the massive restructuring of Nestlé Russia's sales force. Both are based in the only facility to be closed. The IUF believes that this closure targets the union's leadership.

On May 14 all Nestlé Russia sales force employees were invited to the company's regional centers in 10 cities across Russia under the pretext of "discussing business results". The workers were confined in locked rooms under security guard, denied access to all communication to the outside world and were given two options – sign a notice accepting their job would disappear within several months, generally by August 31, 2019, or resign immediately "by agreement of the parties".

On 13 March workers at the Nestlé-owned Osem group in Israel, who are unionised in the Histadrut, started demonstrations on the backdrop of the company’s intentions to carry out significant structural changes which will impact workers’ terms and conditions and lead to mass dismissal.

Froneri, Nestlé's ice cream joint venture, announced in October its intention to close yet another former Nestlé site, the factory and research centre in Beauvais, France. The unions represented at the factory have reached a settlement for the 317 workers which will provide a decent foundation for their future.

400 Nestlé workers from across Germany travelled to Vevey, Switzerland, for a mass protest at Nestlé headquarters on October 2 against measures threatening the employment of some 600 workers in Germany.

Following the announcement in mid-June of factory closures, job cuts and payroll cost "improvements", the German food workers union, NGG, had some harsh words for Nestlé: "Reckless greed is behind this…. Everything is secondary to the absurd target of 18.5% profit returns prescribed by the CEO."

Following changes to the labour code in Brazil in 2017 which removed the mandatory deduction of union dues, workers at the Nestlé factory in Cordeirópolis met in general assembly and voted overwhelmingly to have their union dues deducted at source and transferred to their union, STIAL.

The long, difficult struggle of the workers at the Nestlé-Froneri ice cream factory in Parma, Italy, backed by their unions FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL and the IUF, resulted in a settlement on December 21 which brings provisions the company had persistently refused to consider or negotiate.

On 15 December more than two thousand workers and supporters joined the strike in Parma called by the provincial organizations of FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL in support of the Nestlé-Froneri workers and their struggle for jobs and a decent future.

A delegation of 50 Froneri workers and their trade union representatives from FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL travelled on 29 November from Parma in Italy to Switzerland to carry their fight against the closure of their ice cream factory to Nestlé's doorstep.

A large delegation of workers and their trade union representatives from
Nestlé's joint-venture Froneri ice-cream factory in Parma, Italy will
be travelling to Vevey and demonstrating at the Nestlé headquarters on
Wednesday, 29 November.

More than 360 workers set up picket lines at a Nestlé Canada manufacturing plant in Toronto on May Day after contract negotiations between Unifor Local 252 and the food processing giant broke down as the
IUF affiliate demanded an end to temporary workers being employed in permanent jobs.

Five unions representing Nestlé workers in the United States met with members of the IUF Secretariat in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 30 to discuss coordination in organizing and bargaining with the company.

At least 34 people are so far known to have been killed in the September 10 explosion and fire at the Tampaco Foils factory near Dhaka in Bangladesh. The factory produced packaging for local and multinational companies, including British American Tobacco and Nestlé - companies which will now need to again examine how they monitor and enforce their supplier codes and how they plan to meet their clear obligations as customers of this factory.

Striking members of IUF affiliated Tekgida-Is employed at the large multi product site at Karacabey in Bursa province Turkey, are demanding a substantial improvement in their low wages that better reflects their living costs and recognizes their contribution to company profits.

Members of the Nestlé Moscow Medical Representatives' Union organised a leafletting action on October 12 to inform their co-workers about workplace issues and union activities and the benefits of joining the union.

In meetings with Nestlé corporate management on gender issues, the IUF had consistently pointed out to Nestlé that there was a need to raise its global standards on the issue of maternity protection at least to the level of ILO Convention 183. In a welcome move Nestlé has now acted.

The first-ever collective bargaining negotiations at pizza manufacturer Nestlé Wagner - begun in September 2014 - were successfully concluded on 20 May 2015. The German food workers union, NGG, has negotiated a collective agreement for the approximately 1,700 employees, which comes into force on 1 September.

Workers at the Nestlé/Lotte joint venture went on strike on 13 November after the company refused to accept a Supreme Court decision from December 2013 that declared that regular bonuses should be calculated as part of ordinary wages. The decision was further formalized by a Corrective Order issued by the Ministry of Employment in October this year. Other TNC's have complied with the ruling.